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In late December 2023, when communities in the southeastern Peruvian province of Cotabambas received a copy of proposed modifications to the Las Bambas copper mine, they were at first surprised, and then frustrated. The document, which arrived between Christmas and New Year’s, contained a proposal to almost double the mining operation but lacked detailed studies […]

Environmental assassinations bad for business, new research shows by Genevieve Belmaker on 20 January 2021 After years of research, economics experts say they can prove that financial markets respond swiftly and definitively when multinationals are publicly named in connection with the assassination of an environmental defender. The researchers analyzed 354 assassinations over two decades connected to mining and extractive minerals projects around the world, noting particularly significant vio...